Category Archives: Duck Tape ‘n’ Balin’ Wor

Actually, it’s more like “substituting for the horn.” Shoehorn, that is. Craig Brewer here.  Didn’t mean to get your hopes up if you happen to be a nautical type.  I don’t know about you, but I’m always losing my shoehorn, and … Continue reading →

Hello again, folks.  Craig Brewer again.  I’ll be you thought I had fallen off the end of the world or something, and maybe in some ways, that’s true.  Or perhaps you thought I had passed on.  Well, as Mark Twain … Continue reading →

In the above photo, friends is the “reel” thing—bailing wire, right next to the duct tape.  No, I didn’t get it off a reel.  It came out of the old family barn, a barn that is about to be bulldozed … Continue reading →

Sure, I’ve been falling down on the job.  I haven’t contributed to this blog in nearly two months.  I could say I’ve been busy, but burning through 9mm rounds at the range is no excuse.  Gotta keep up my marksmanship, … Continue reading →

I was just thinking about an old cowboy song I learned when I was a young boy, and I thought I’d share a few verses with you today.  It’s about driving longhorn cattle from Texas across Oklahoma and up to … Continue reading →

All right, scouts–a free Advance Reader Copy (ARC) of Time Pullers to the first two people to correctly identify the piece of equipment pitured below.  I’ll give you a hint: It’s two words.  Heck, I’ll give you two hints: It’s … Continue reading →

Brewer here again.  How many of y’all caught my mistake?  Well, as the old saying goes, to err is human … but I’m not going to ask you to forgive me, I’m just going to ‘fess up to my error … Continue reading →

Howdy, folks. Brewer here again.  No, I’m not much of a poker player.  That title refers to a way to find the middle of something when you don’t have the proper measuring tools. For instance, let’s say you’ve already used … Continue reading →

Brewer, here, folks. No, I’m not going to get completely nautical on you, now, but I do like to sail occasionally, and there’s a common misconception about that particular pastime that’s always bothered me, and I’d like to talk about … Continue reading →

It’s Brewer again. Betcha y’all wondered if I was coming back, but wonder no more.  Here’s a little handy method for setting a post to stretch a fence out exactly perpendicular, or square, to an existing fence or a straight … Continue reading →